In order to be successful in business and in life, you must continuously increase your knowledge and skill set. We live in a time when we are blessed with a wealth of information at our fingertips, but we may not always know the best ways to obtain this information. If you want to be successful, you need to stay hungry and stay informed. Here are some great methods to help you stay sharp and up to speed: Read. Feed your mind with as many different reading materials on as many different subjects as you can. Not only does reading provide you with the obvious benefits of learning about the sub-ject matter at hand, but reading is like a workout for our mind. Reading increases your cognitive abilities, improves your vocabulary, improves your memory and makes you more worldly. Apart from making you more knowledgable on the subject matter that you’re reading about, habitual reading raises the bar for how intelligent you can potentially become! Be observant. Observe the world around